(January 8, 2013 at 8:26 am)Aractus Wrote: Well if you don't get diagnosed with gender identity disorder by a qualified physician then you don't get gender reassignment surgery, it's that simple. Every case of dissociative identity disorder is treated as unique, and gender identity disorder should be approached in the same way. For the most part it is, but it also isn't. For instance, the validation of someone's gender dysphoria as their identity is at odds with the views on how to treat DID.
I understand that, I am just uncomfortable with calling it a "disorder", not because of the way doctors use the term, but because religious nuts will go "SEE SEE SEE, it is a mental illness".
Being born in the wrong body is about as much a "disorder" as being albino or left handed. I see nothing wrong about correcting something you might not like about your own body which is why "disorder" I am fine with as far as a medical/psychological term. But give a theist a word and they will turn it into a slur like ignorant bigots.
